Where’s the cycling stuff?

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My bio says “cyclist”. The image splashed across the homepage is from an iconic European cycling route: the undulating road to Cap Formentor in Mallorca, Spain.

So why all the posts about Covid-19?

(No, I didn’t get it. At least not that I know of. And if I did, it doesn’t seem to have left any lasting damage.)

To be honest, my complete lack of cycling fodder these days is a bit of a painful subject. I’ll let the graphics speak for themselves.

Strava activities this week

Strava 2020 timeline

Strava YTD

Smashrun 2020 heatmap

Smashrun heatmap

(For you runners out there, Smashrun does an absolutely fantastic job of visualizing and classifying your run data in a way that’s actually fun. I’m totally jealous.)

The bright spot: Github activity spikes!

The lemonade out of all these lemons is it left me with a lot more time, as well as the energy, to create a website and dust off this blog.

Github heatmap

The upshot is I could finally share some of the Covid data explorations I’ve been working on since the first confinement.

That being said, I’m feeling a very strong need to blog about something, anything, that’s not Covid. So expect to see a bit more variety—including more of the cycling variety—shortly!